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Question: we showed that you need to expend 8340 btu to...
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We showed that you need to expend 8,340 Btu to heat up 20 gallons of water from room temperature at 70F to 120F to produce hot water to take a shower. From this we calculated the amount of natural gas that you would burn to heat 20 gallons of water from room temperature at 70F to 120F to take a shower is 8.34 ft^3. Determine the additional amount of gas that must be burned if the water heater has an efficiency of (a) 80 percent, (b) 85 percent, and (c) 90 percent.
Efficiency = desired output/required output
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